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| Thread ID: 119938 | 2011-08-17 11:50:00 | Cloning WIN7 Home Premium OEM | urbanguerilla (16164) | Press F1 |
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| 1224097 | 2011-08-18 06:31:00 | Thanks for the heads up. As long as the repair process restores bootability then I'm happy.....I think....generally speaking.... On the rare occasion ( thankfully) when I have to put back a backup of my Windows 7, once (only had to do it 3 times) I had to put in the rescue CD and fix the boot loader. I know why mine did it, it used to dual boot with Vista on a second drive, and now that vista has long gone, it doesn't have the hidden partition to fix its self. One day :rolleyes: I'll get around to reinstall from scratch, but at the moment its humming along quite nice :D Generally speaking (but not always) if a clone doesn't boot, the W7 Rescue CD will fix the boot loader and away you go. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1224098 | 2011-08-18 06:36:00 | :lol: Nice way to put it :thumbs: Yes you can, yes,:wub you can do it, c'mon yes you can :D Weird it closed itself down @ 46% and told me the process was completed. That doesn't sound good... |
urbanguerilla (16164) | ||
| 1224099 | 2011-08-18 06:52:00 | Are you cloning it from within windows or from a bootable CD ? Does the "clone" boot ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1224100 | 2011-08-18 07:49:00 | Thanks to Wainui for clarifying my question to Terry | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1224101 | 2011-08-18 07:55:00 | Are you cloning it from within windows or from a bootable CD ? Does the "clone" boot ? I'm cloning from a Win98 boot CD with Ghost 2002 installed on it. The clone only boots after a "repair" using the install disc. It takes very little time, and the system shows nothing untoward after the boot repair. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1224102 | 2011-08-18 11:20:00 | 4 Terry :) re: "Does the "clone" boot ?" I was asking urbanguerilla re the post/comment "Weird it closed itself down @ 46% and told me the process was completed . That doesn't sound good . . . Sudden stoppage can sometimes be a bad sign esp if the original drive is failing or on its last legs :crying I say sometimes, because I have been cloning drives before, they get part way through at a percentage, then all of a sudden jump to 100%, the clone had worked OK, it was just cloning the data and then came to the empty space on the drive, so nothing to clone = 100% |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1224103 | 2011-08-18 14:20:00 | I'm at my wits end, 7 hours later and still no success with cloning or imaging! I was starting the process from within windows, but it kinda reboots and then it starts the cloning process after the bios screen dump. And nope it doesn't boot at all... Can't even repair the cloned data as Win7 doesn't detect anything. Looks like it'll have to be a clean install solution for me. while I'm at it I might just change my name tag to "SurrenderMonkey" :) |
urbanguerilla (16164) | ||
| 1224104 | 2011-08-18 21:05:00 | I never clone from within Windows I found that way always stops. I use a boot disc as it works, is quicker and is still easy to do | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1224105 | 2011-08-19 00:08:00 | Try this -- Download the demo version of Active Live CD From Here (www.disk-image.net) -- the link you want is in the middle of the page "Installer and bootable CD /USB" 147MB. Install it on a PC, run it once it asks, make sure you have a blank CD. Follow the prompts, use the defaults ( they are fine). Once made, attach USB Hard Drive to the PC to be copied, boot from the CD Click Start/Programs/Disk Image Click next when prompted Click Continue when prompted about buying etc Select Disk to Image Full Backup Select the Disk ( disk 0) (you will notice there are two partitions -all partitions will be selected you must have both ticked, by default it does this) Follow though and save the image to the USB drive. Once finished, turn off the PC, disconnect the original HDD, attach the New drive - start from the CD again, work through as before, this time select Image to Disk Browse to the USB drive where the image will be Select Disk 0 ( all partitions will be selected you must have both ticked, by default it does this) Select the New HDD - Should be Disk 0- careful as the other will be the USB drive Untick Keep Original Size bla bla Delete all data on the HDD if it asks Follow through and the image will be laid down on the new drive, once completed remove the USB drive, reboot, removing the CD as well and should boot straight into windows, it will require reboot once it detects the new drive. |
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